Freshening the Air in Microservices: Resolving Architectural Smells via Refactoring

摘要

The adoption of microservice-based architectures is becoming common practice for enterprise applications. Checking whether an application adheres to the main design principles of microservices, and - if not - understanding how to refactor it, are two key issues in that context. In this paper, we present a methodology to systematically identify the architectural smells that possibly violate the main design principles of microservices, and to select suitable architectural refactorings to resolve them. We also present a prototype implementing the methodology, based on a novel representation of microservices in TOSCA.